The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-01

and has been through good deal. 1t looks Just
the same il used to- l always had good luck
with oars. never broke one. though | have
had them wrenched out of my hands by the force
of the water"
The Newport Mercury of April 8. 1869, had
what printers would call stickful about the
rescue of the two soldiers. 1t said that Ida
Lewis was scarcely twenty-four then. and that
this made some eight or ten persons she had
saved This doesn't correspond with Miss
Lewiss reckoning at ALL She told me she had
saved thirteen persons in ALL and that the rescue
IN ioo9 was tho first; butt perhaps she does not
consider some of her earlier efforts worth
mem bering. The Mercury went to say that
the citizens raised $500 for the lightkeeper's
daughter because the salary of the position was
small and the health of its Incumbent always
poor. and that j. Carter Brown gave S25.
y GU nave pulled some out of the ice. have
you mott" 1 inquired.
'"Yes" the woman in the calico drass renl;ed.
81 saved two men that way IN 1881 They
were two bandmen at the fort and were cross
Ing on the Ice They were almost gone when 7
discovered them. | took the clothes line for
want of something better, and climbed ont over
the well as | could, and got IL tn them
One WAS foreigner, and couldn't make hun
understand that he was to wind 1t around hs
hands. 1t was great strain on me and | don't
think L ever got fully over it. 1t was more
dangerous and harder than pulling them ont of
the water. There was telling when you
might slip and then it would be all over and
there WAS no way, you see to brace yourself to
pull hard"
Then the heroine of Lime Rock light told ma
about her good dog Prince that she used TO have
He was bigger and fatter than Rover but he
wasn't so lazy, and could swim better. He was
a better Watchdog too and some of the curious
who came to see her. and didn't like Prince fog
that reason poisoned him. But he uever would
offer to touch anybody If his mistress just said
word of reproof He was buried there in be-
tween the rocks. She told about her health
Also She had pneumonia three years ago. and
thought she never had been strong since, and,
besides. the exposure and exertions of her life
bad made her heart sometimes troublesome
Wont you look into the sittirgrcom." she
said. pleasantly, land see my medals2"
This one," she went on. when that cozy
apartment had been reached, was from the
New York humane Society, and this from the
Mas sachusetts Humane Society, and is the only
one. | am told. which they ever gave outside OF
the State. This gold one was voted me by Cen
fort gave me. have had any number of books
sent and any number of papers with pieces
marked: those Brother Scott has now-he's our
minister. and lives over on Spring street."
Another object of great interest me was q
miniature full-rigged ship that stood on a table
in the corner. 1t was made by the lightkeepers
uncle, sea captain. and she wouldn't part with
it for anything. The blocks were smaller than
white beans and were 800 in number, aud all
made out of whales teeth In the parlor, too
were appropriate pictures and gifts.
Narrow stairs lead to the light It is in the
very corner OF the house, and the second
story. Ida Lewis doesn't have to reach very
hard to open the glass or change the lamp. Il
is lighted at shutdown, repenished a. midnight,
and put out at sunrise. The keeper says she has
no trouble IN waking exactly at midnight to see
to it. because she has grown used to it II
call it our light she said, because mother and
L had it together so long"
They will tell in Newport of the DAYS
when pictures of the Lime Rock life-saver used
to ornament boats and coaches by the dozen,
and recall the ceremony of the presentation of
the rowboat on one Fourth of July morning.
That was q rare piece of workmanship and cost
money. Jolly Captain Stanhope had to do with
the arrangements for the event.